So I've been doing a lot of research on Jamir and have watched 3-4 full games on youtube that I found of him and felt like i have a much better feel for him as a player than before. I hadn't been too interested in learning about him up until now. Heres what I've seen and what I found out:
As of January 6th, he is his team's leading scorer averaging over 18PPG, over 4 more than the next highest guy on his team. This is with 7 other D1 guys on the team including a composite top 15 player in the country, #2 center and Kentucky commit Nick Richards, point guard Jordan Walker who is a member of Isaiah's Jelly Fam, a top 100 junior PF, a senior guard committed to Monmouth, two backup bigs both committed to Tulane, and a sophomore guard who has an offer from Minnesota and a few other places. That's pretty impressive to be the leading scorer among that group of guys.
Here's an article/list about it
http://www.nj.com/hssn-mms/2017/01/meet_the_patrick_school_basket_1.html#0
So this is what I gathered from watching him and my explanation as to why he isn't ranked higher than what he is. His shooting ability is definitely as advertised. He may very well be one of the best shooters in the country and his range is absolutely out of the gym. About half of his 3's are from NBA range. Some of his makes were contested with a hand in his face and he has a quick release. Can punish you if you go under the screens.
That being said, he isn't nearly as fast or quick as I would have thought a 6-2/6-1 guard would be. Several times he tried to drive past his defender but they managed to stay with him. His handle isn't as good as I would hope for a 6-2/6-1 and he turned it over a few times because of this in the games that I watched. His lateral quickness on D is mediocre as well and there where a few times when his opponent beat him albeit very good opponents. When he did manage to stay in front of his opponents and force a shot, his length did nothing to disrupt the shot which is excepted. There were also a few times when he drove the paint or was in transition but didn't finish. In fact I only saw him make 2 non 3 point FG's in the 3-4 games I watched. He doesn't seem to have point guard skills and is most certainly not a combo guard. If anybody tells you he is a combo guard, they are basing it 100% off his height and not his skill set.
Bottom line: I do think his 3 point shooting will get himself a role on next year's team and he will have a much bigger offensive impact than what Hurt and Gilbert provided last year. I wouldn't be surprised though if he struggled even more on D than Hurt did though in fact I might be expecting it. Hurt didn't have great foot speed but his 6-7 frame could at least contest shots, something that Harris doesn't have.
I'll post the games that I watched in my next post.
